JEWISH GALICIA & BUKOVINA

Promoting the study and commemoration of the cultural heritage

In cooperation with:

A Polish language weekly of the “Agudat Ahim” (=Association of Brethren), which advocated citizenship for Jews and social and cultural integration into the surrounding Polish society. Since some of the members of this circle came from the maskilic camp, and could not entirely break away from Hebrew language and culture, during its first years the periodical published a Hebrew language supplement titled “Ha-mazkir ahava le-eretz moladeto” (=Evoking love of one’s native land). The supplement published pieces praising Hebrew language and literature and advocated their dissemination among the Jewish people. Members of the association tried to impact the masses also by means of a German language journal in Hebrew print (/script?), named “Neues Judisches Folksblatt”,  which began to appear in July 1882 in Lviv, and whose editor was Isaac Aaron Bernfeld, the editor of the Hebrew supplement; its aim was “to sow a seed of love and brotherhood between our brethren the Children of Israel in Galicia and the people in whose midst they dwell.”